This monograph presents 26 papers addressed to workshop sessions representing thought and innovation in employment counseling and vocational guidance. Two papers are written in German, one in French, and 23 in English. Abstracts preceding each paper appear in the two languages other than that used for the paper itself. Topics covered include training of counseling services personnel (Germany); counseling for midlife career change; policies for career information, guidance, and counseling in school-work transition; PLACE, an individualized learning package to assess employability; measuring employment counselor effectiveness; career decison making and computers; counseling for mid-career change; computerized job-person matching (Sweden); conceptual approach to career education; career development in industry; employment counseling of college students (United Kingdom); "focusing" in adult career counseling; life skills training; brokering and employment counseling; STEP, self-exploration programs for career selection (Germany); competency-based inservice program for counselors; impact of a computerized guidance information system; vocational counseling as an instructional process; evaluation of employment counseling; and computer-aided vocational counseling in mid-career change. (YLB)